Re^2: Mimicking Unix shell quoting in Perl

Looking at Shell::Parser leaves me empty inside. It looks like a very lightweight wrapper around lexical analysis. It doesn't appear to do any glob syntax expansion like eyepopslikeamosquito wanted.

Not only does bash globbing syntax handle foo*.jpg but it deals with foo?.jpg and foo[1-5][xyz].jpg and even foo.{jpg,jpeg} options too. It's a pretty complicated feature, even if you skip all the $VAR interpolation stuff.

Speaking of which, eyepopslikeamosquito, is it important for your purposes to do things exactly like the shell? Can you assume you're on a platform that actually has the shell, or must you work smoothly on Win/DOS too? You could just shell out a string to xargs, but this is a significant taint-checking exercise too.

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Re^3: Mimicking Unix shell quoting in Perl by bart (Canon) on Aug 21, 2007 at 10:19 UTC
The Windows shell doesn't do glob. So even a module that doesn't handle globbing can still be much like a "real shell". It just depends on what you use as a role model. :)	[reply]